cwilby

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by cwilby 1y ago
This is it right here. I love the Python ecosystem but if I can find a JS alternative I'm using that for ergonomics.
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by cwilby 1y ago
Thanks! Just learned about hot key windows. https://www.karam.io/blog/2018/turning-i-term-in-to-a-quake-...
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by cwilby 1y ago
When my pair of Airpods started hissing, I bought "cheap" headphones from Amazon for $40. No Siri integration or what have you, but mic & speakers work great and if I lose them I'm not out hundreds of dollars. Also the b
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by cwilby 1y ago
Is it just me or am I not seeing any example that isn't pure theory? And if it is just me, fine I'll jump in - they should also make it so that users have to approve local network access three times. I worry about the theoretical
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by cwilby 1y ago
It's 2025's ROT13 cipher for API. /s It's also "Model Context Protocol", a protocol for LLMs to interact with third-party services.
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by cwilby 2y ago
Thus cross origin resource sharing. Thanks! At least it's consistently inconsistent.
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by cwilby 2y ago
> Internally, we call the request’s destination server its “origin” Origin: The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived. How can the request's destination server be the origin, if it is t
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by cwilby 2y ago
gross
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by cwilby 2y ago
Seeing the title reminded me of "Warriors of the Net". We were genuinely told, as a class, to watch this video to learn how the internet worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhvKm0RdUY0&themeRefresh=1 Good
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by cwilby 2y ago
It looks to be contained to just GitHub, azure service page shows no outages at this time.
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by cwilby 2y ago
The timeout can be about 200 before you need to chill out..
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by cwilby 2y ago
Thank you
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by cwilby 2y ago
This tracks - it's difficult to speak at the same pace in Chinese as I can English. That said - are those 39.15 bits plaintext? Compressed? Encrypted? The size of a word does not correlate with it's concept - I still posit that
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by cwilby 2y ago
I just started learning Chinese about 2 months ago, to me it seems they stuff whole concepts into characters. For example, "去" (pronounced "Qú") is "going to the". "超市" (prounced "Chao Shi")
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by cwilby 2y ago
Saw the headline, found your comment within two seconds, exhaled with relief. Every time a cohesive pair of words is redefined, a new JS framework is born.
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by cwilby 3y ago
I don't know what to say more than - I wish they'd calculated in KWh instead of $. I really want to know that figure, but I'm left extrapolating. I could _guess_ it's huge, but that's not the point. > "Can w
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by cwilby 3y ago
"Clearfix" - when this article was in the bookmarks bar: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/clear-fix/
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by cwilby 3y ago
We recently installed something similar ( https://miniprofiler.com ) into a legacy ASP.NET MVC app. It is setup to only be visible in local development environments. In areas of the code where ORMs obscure the actual SQL that ru
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by cwilby 3y ago
Well said.
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by cwilby 3y ago
I recently (in the last 2 weeks) used Wayback Machine to miraculously restore an old static site where the backups had also been lost. https://github.com/alessandropellegrini/WebsiteRecovery
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by cwilby 4y ago
Good odds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by cwilby 4y ago
> Randomly deleting unit tests may seem like insanity to some of you I too, like to live dangerously.
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by cwilby 4y ago
Yes, test frequently and automatically.
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by cwilby 4y ago
Our team too, time saved is fairly quantifiable.
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by cwilby 4y ago
It is interesting to me that the approach required to work with this tool, is almost identical to using every other tool. It boils down to - "try breaking this problem into smaller problems to increase the solution space".
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by cwilby 4y ago
~Can't wait to try this out~ just installed, thank you!
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by cwilby 4y ago
The Marriott have had some of their best earnings from the last 6 quarters. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MAR/marriott/reven...
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by cwilby 4y ago
I kind of agree and disagree (enough to type some stuff) I can see how interaction with a human-like device is more engaging than Alexa (I have a Google Home speaker and feel the same) However, then we're entering "uncanny valley&
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by cwilby 4y ago
That literally leads to the conclusion that prices rose, in your example.
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by cwilby 4y ago
Couple of clues The author mentioned the tool sends out requests, and just measures response time regardless of response status. (If they fail, they fail!) And they measure response times from gstatic.com, which should have edge nodes near

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